WEBVTT 30 AS WE CHANGE OVER TO LIGHTSNOW OR TO HOW MUCH SNOW TOEXPECT, COMING UP IN A FEWMINUTES.PATRICK: HE SAYS HIS FATHER SHOTHIM AFTER CATCHING HIM DOINGHEROIN.>> I CAUGHT HIM SHOOTING UP ANDLOST IT.I HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH THISFOR A WHILE, AND I HAD ENOUGHAND DID SOMETHING STUPID.PATRICK: THAT IS THE FATHER INGREENFIELD, WHO YOU HEARD SAIDHE JUST HAD ENOUGH.12 NEWS NICK BOHR BROKE THISSTORY WEDNESDAY.TONIGHT, ONLY ON 12, THE SON ISTELLING HIS SIDE OF THE STORY.>> GREENFIELD 911.WHAT IS YOUR EMERGENCY?>> I SHOT MY SON IN THE ARM ONACCIDENT.>> A MATTER OF FACT CALL TOGREENFIELD POLICE LAST WEEK, A61-YEAR-OLD FATHER WHO ADMITTEDHE'D HAD ENOUGH WHEN HE SAW HIS27-YEAR-OLD SON INJECTINGHEROIN.>> THE BULLET WENT THROUGH MYELBOW, UP TO MY SHOULDER,TEARING ALL THIS MUSCLE.THEY HAD TO SEW IT ALL TOGETHER.>> ZAK MATTE SAYS HE WAS LIVINGAT HIS PARENT'S HOUSE TO DETOXBEFORE HE STARTED REHAB.HE SAYS HIS DAD KNEW HE WASWEANING HIMSELF OFF OF HEROIN.IT'S ALL THE MORE REASON HE WASSHOCKED WHEN HIS DAD WALKED INTOHIS ROOM WITH A GUN AFTER SEEINGZAK INJECTING HIMSELF.>> HE SAW ME AND HE JUST FLIPPEDOUT.>> ZAK SAYS HE DOESN'T BELIEVEHIS FATHER'S CLAIM TO POLICETHAT HE WAS TRYING TO SHOOT AWALL AND HIT ZAK BY ACCIDENT.>> MY DAD RIGHT AFTER ITHAPPENED THROUGH A WASHCLOTH ATME AND WALKED AWAY.I HAD TO GET A TILE AND PUT ATURN A KIT ON MYSELF.I AM SCREAMING AND CALLING 911IN MY LOVED ONES, SCREAMING ILOVE YOU.>> STILL, HE SAYS HE'S TRYING TOMOVE ON.>> I STILL LOVE HIM.I FORGIVE HIM.THAT IS ALL YOU CAN DO.YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ELSE.YOU HAVE TO GET TO THEACCEPTANCE STAGE AND GET OVERIT, YOU KNOW?>> THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY HEREWILL DETERMINE WHETHER THEFATHER WILL FACE CRIMINALCHARGES.ZAK COULD HIMSELF FACE CHARGESFOR DRUG POSSESSION.IN THE MEANTIME, HE SAYS HE ISGETTING BY WITH HELP FROMFRIENDS THROUGH A GOFUNDME PAGE

A man whose father shot him in the arm while he was shooting heroin says he's trying to move on.

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"I forgive him, and I still love him and everything. I understand like that's all you can do. You can't do anything else about this at this point. Might as well get to the acceptance stage, and just try to get over it, you know?" Zak Matte said.

The father, 61, called 911 and admitted he'd had enough when he saw his 27-year-old son injecting heroin.

"I caught him shooting up, and I lost it, I've been dealing this for a while, and I just had enough and I did something stupid," the father told the 911 dispatcher.

Matte said he was living at his parent's house to detox before he started rehab. He said his dad knew he was weaning himself off heroin. It's all the more reason he was shocked when his dad walked into his room with a gun, after seeing Matte injecting himself.

"He saw me doing it, and he just flipped out," Matte said. "Bullet went through my elbow, into my shoulder, tearing all this muscle. They had to resew it all together."

Matte said he doesn't believe his father's claim to police that he was trying to shoot a wall and hit Matte by accident.

"My dad right after it happened just threw a little washcloth at me and walked away. I had to get a towel and make a tourniquet myself as I'm screaming and I'm calling 911 and loved ones like, 'If I die, I love you,' you know? I thought I was going to die for sure. There was so much blood everywhere, you know?'" Matte said.

The district attorney will determine whether the father will face criminal charges and Matte could himself face charges for drug possession.

He said friends are supporting him through a GoFundMe page for now, since he can't live at his parents' house anymore.